Warning - Contains SPoiler - Just... Awful...

Rating: 1/10 (8 October 2013)

Oh, boy. Where do I start with this one?
Hand-to-hand combat with alien lifeforms? This is the best we could come up with? Not anything that could be deployed from afar, or that didn't require massive amounts of money and people and time and other resources? No? The wear and tear on those things would render them useless after one fight. Obviously we have grown stupider in 2025.
What happened to the seawall? It was never mentioned again, not even shown or referenced somewhere in Del Toro's terrible editing. It was a bad idea in the first place, anyway. The Kaijus were 250 feet tall and could throw around a 2,500 ton robot. Another feat of stupidity.
"Drifting" had two people connected in their minds. Why, then, did they have to talk out loud? If I can see your deepest, darkest childhood memories, can't I also read your thoughts?
The robots required helicopters for transportation? They can beat up these massive alien beasts but can't climb out of their holders? And couldn't the helicopters have lowered them a bit instead of dropping them from 1,000 ft up in the air? Easy on the merchandise! No need to jostle everything up before the fight even begins. Besides all that, one Chinook can lift just under 27,000 lbs. 8 of them could, then, logically lift almost 216,000 lbs. A 2,500-ton Jaeger is equivalent to 5,000,000 lbs. I'm no mathematician, but, uh... Yeah... Something doesn't quite add up.
*Why so loud*?!?! Some movies come with 3D glasses; Pacific Rim should have come with ear plugs.
Couldn't they have disarmed the robot's weapons *before* letting a first-timer try it out and almost blow everybody up? Nah- just let the troubled, 14-year-old-looking Japanese girl figure it out! No big deal!
"She's pregnant!" *Gasp!!!* Ugh... I might have peed a little laughing at that one. The dramatic exaggeration was out. of. control.
I guess the Japanese have invented a super awesome umbrella that is unaffected by high winds from helicopter blades. Cool.
Did you know that nuclear reactors are designed *not* to explode? Obviously Del Toro didn't.
The time on the War Clock changed sporadically. Terrible editing, no attention to details.
Lastly, the overacting quite literally hurt my head. Over-dramatized love stories (I swear she was 14, and with chameleon-like, ever-changing hair color); cliché one-liners (*That's my son*!" was my favorite. No, really? He's your son? I had forgotten.); and all around wounded souls dragging their sorry, pouting, angry corpses all over the place was just annoying. We get it. You've seen hardships. You have issues. Got. It. It was all dripping- oozing, even- with soap-opera like ridiculousness. Are we sure this wasn't a comedy? I laughed my butt off during any and every "tender" moment, of which there were more of than brain cells that created this film-o-graphic trash. I'm of the belief Del Toro collaborated with M. Night Shamalan and his classic failure "The Happening." I felt similarly while being tortured with that one.
Apparently $170 million can buy some fancy CGI; a lot of sound effects; and deplorable, shameful acting. It cannot necessarily buy good sense and/or intelligent entertainment. Save YOUR money and rent War Of The Worlds or Tranformers for your robot/alien fix.